Abstract: A disturbance estimation apparatus including a navigation data receiver, a thrust data receiver, and processing circuitry is provided. The navigation data receiver acquires navigation data including an actual position and time of the ship on a water surface. The thrust data receiver receives thrust data indicating a magnitude and a direction of a thrust force of the ship. The processing circuitry estimates a predicted position of the ship under an absence of a disturbance condition at a predetermined time in the future using a first state estimation model based on the navigation data and the thrust data and determines disturbance data including a drift direction of the ship drifted by an external force based on a difference between the predicted position estimated by the first state estimation model and an actual position of the ship at the predetermined time.

Abstract: Proper setting of feedback control according to the ship. The ship control device includes processing circuitry configured to set the ship characteristic parameters of the combined system of first order lag and dead time, which integrates the behavior of the rudder and the behavior of the ship. Using the ship characteristic parameters, the processing circuitry is further configured to calculate the control parameters of feedback control with respect to the rudder angle of the rudder. Using the control parameters, the processing circuitry is further configured to perform feedback control.

Abstract: To control an automatic steering appropriately regardless of a ship speed. An automatic steering device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires motion information including a ship length and a ship speed. The processing circuitry identifies a non-dimensionalizing motion parameter based on the ship length and the motion information. The processing circuitry generates a dimensionalizing motion parameter by dimensionalizing the non-dimensionalizing motion parameter based on the ship speed. The processing circuitry sets a control parameter of the model-based controller based on the dimensionalizing motion parameter.

Abstract: An automatic steering device includes an acquirer, and processing circuitry. The acquirer acquires a traveling state including a heading or a position of a ship, and ship information on the ship. The processing circuitry calculates a first evaluation value that is an evaluation value indicative of a performance for maintaining the heading of the ship or a route based on the traveling state. The processing circuitry calculates a second evaluation value that is an evaluation value related to a ship handling control based on the ship information. The processing circuitry sets a control parameter related to a motion control of the ship based on the first evaluation value or the second evaluation value.

Abstract: According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes: a camera; a controller configured to determine whether a measured value of a healthcare device is included in an image captured by the camera; and a communication unit configured to transmit information related to the measured value to an information providing device when the measured value is included in the image.

Abstract: A compressor that allows a discharge port to assume a large circumference and a large area at an exit end thereof so as to optimize the discharge resistance and the pressure-receiving area and assuring improved volumetric efficiency through reduced dead volume, includes a discharge port 5b, an entrance end of which opens into a compression chamber and an exit end that is able to open and shut with a discharge valve 43. The discharge port 5b is constituted with a recessed portion 50 formed to achieve a predetermined depth from the exit end and a through portion 51 having a smaller sectional area than the sectional area of the recessed portion 50. The through portion 51 is formed so that its width measured along a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the discharge valve is greater than its width measured along the longitudinal direction of the discharge valve 43.

Abstract: Provided is a piston type compressor which can enhance cooling of internal parts housed in a crank chamber, while effectively reducing an outflow of oil to the outside of a compressor by effectively performing a centrifugal separating operation due to the rotation of a shaft. The compressor includes: a first suction path which directly introduces a working fluid flowed from a suction port 30 into suction chambers 27a, 27b without via the crank chamber 7; and a second suction path which introduces the working fluid flowed from the suction port 30 into the suction chambers 27a, 27b via the crank chamber 7, and the second suction path includes: an oil separation passage 32 where a working fluid is introduced into the suction chambers 27a, 27b from the crank chamber 7 via holes formed in the shaft; and a bypass passage 33 where the working fluid is introduced into the suction chambers 27a, 27b from the crank chamber 7 through the cylinder blocks 1, 2 without via the shaft 12.

Abstract: According to one of aspects, an electronic device includes: a camera; a controller configured to determine whether a measured value of a healthcare device is included in an image captured by the camera; and a communication unit configured to transmit information related to the measured value to an information providing device when the measured value is included in the image.

Abstract: Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit, a control unit performs control so that a first type character display area and a second type character display area are displayed on the LCD display unit in place of the initial screen, wherein the first type character display area is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key.

Abstract: Provided is a piston type compressor which can enhance cooling of internal parts housed in a crank chamber, while effectively reducing an outflow of oil to the outside of a compressor by effectively performing a centrifugal separating operation due to the rotation of a shaft. The compressor includes: a first suction path which directly introduces a working fluid flowed from a suction port 30 into suction chambers 27a, 27b without via the crank chamber 7; and a second suction path which introduces the working fluid flowed from the suction port 30 into the suction chambers 27a, 27b via the crank chamber 7, and the second suction path includes: an oil separation passage 32 where a working fluid is introduced into the suction chambers 27a, 27b from the crank chamber 7 via holes formed in the shaft; and a bypass passage 33 where the working fluid is introduced into the suction chambers 27a, 27b from the crank chamber 7 through the cylinder blocks 1, 2 without via the shaft 12.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a mobile device includes a housing, a display unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The housing is configured to be switched to an opened state or a closed state. The display unit displays a standby screen. The display unit is exposed in any state of the opened state and the closed state of the housing. The storage unit stores a first object and a second object to be displayed on the standby screen. The control unit causes the first object to be displayed in a first state where the standby screen is displayed in the closed state, and the second object to be displayed in a second state where the standby screen is displayed in the opened state.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a piston-type compressor that assures optimal lubrication by supplying oil in plentiful quantity to a sliding portion in a cylinder block having cylinders formed therein, through which pistons slide reciprocally. A crankcase is defined by a cylinder block 1 having formed therein a plurality of cylinders 17 through which pistons slide, and a housing mounted at the cylinder block 1, and as a shaft passing through the crankcase rotates, a swashplate disposed inside the crankcase is made to rotate, thereby engaging the pistons to reciprocally slide through the cylinders. At the cylinder block 1, an inbound oil guide passage 35 having one end thereof made to open over an area at the end surface of the cylinder block facing the crankcase between adjacent cylinders 17 and another end thereof connecting to a sliding portion inside the cylinder block.

Abstract: In a piston-type compressor in which a working fluid is taken in through an intake port is first compressed with pistons and is then let out through an outlet port, an axial hole ranging along the axial direction and a radial hole communicating with the axial hole and opening into a crankcase are formed within the shaft. Additionally, a first intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided via the crankcase to the radial hole and the axial hole and a second intake passage through which the working fluid having flowed in through the intake port is guided to join the working fluid having been drawn into the first intake passage by bypassing the crankcase are formed in the compressor. The working fluid is taken into cylinders from the area where the first working fluid and the second working fluid join each other.

Abstract: Provided is a mobile electronic device capable of reflecting a user's intention. While an initial screen (100) for waiting for an incoming-call is being displayed on an LCD display unit (21), a control unit (45) performs control so that a first type character display area (101) and a second type character display area (102) are displayed on the LCD display unit (21) in place of the initial screen (100), wherein the first type character display area (101) is an area for, when any of first keys is depressed, displaying a first type character (for example, a number such as “1”, “2”, “3”) assigned to the depressed first key and the second type character display area (102) is an area for displaying a second type character (for example, “a”, “i”, “u”, etc. in Japanese Hiragana letter) assigned to the depressed first key.

Abstract: A compressor that allows a discharge port to assume a large circumference and a large area at an exit end thereof so as to optimize the discharge resistance and the pressure-receiving area and assuring improved volumetric efficiency through reduced dead volume, includes a discharge port 5b, an entrance end of which opens into a compression chamber and an exit end that is able to open and shut with a discharge valve 43. The discharge port 5b is constituted with a recessed portion 50 formed so as to assume a specific depth measured from the exit end and a through portion 51 having a smaller sectional area than the sectional area of the recessed portion 50 with one end thereof opening at the recessed portion 50 and another end thereof opening into the compression chamber.

Abstract: The present invention provides a piston-type compressor that effectively reduces the quantity of oil flowing out of the compressor by assuring a full centrifugal separation effect to be induced as a shaft rotates without having to install a complicated oil separation mechanism. In a piston-type compressor in which a working fluid having been taken in through an intake port 30 is first compressed with pistons 17 and is then let out through an outlet port, an axial hole 32a ranging along the axial direction and a radial hole 32b communicating with the axial hole 32a and opening into a crankcase 7 are formed within the shaft 12.

Abstract: A vehicle is powered by an electric motor that receives power from at least one of a fuel cell unit and a secondary batter. The fuel cell unit comprises a controller and a fuel cell stack. A hydrogen cylinder is positioned behind the secondary battery. A body cover generally encloses the fuel cell controller, the fuel cell stack, the secondary battery and the hydrogen cylinder. The body cover comprises an air inlet at a front end thereof and air outlets at a rear end of the body cover. An air passage 61 is defined within the body cover between the inlet and the outlets and the fuel cell controller, the secondary battery and the hydrogen cylinder can be arranged in that order from front to back.

Abstract: This invention is to provide a piston-type compressor that assures optimal lubrication by supplying oil in plentiful quantity to a sliding portion in a cylinder block having cylinders formed therein, through which pistons slide reciprocally. A crankcase is defined by a cylinder block 1 having formed therein a plurality of cylinders 17 through which pistons slide, and a housing mounted at the cylinder block 1, and as a shaft passing through the crankcase rotates, a swashplate disposed inside the crankcase is made to rotate, thereby engaging the pistons to reciprocally slide through the cylinders. At the cylinder block 1, an inbound oil guide passage 35 having one end thereof made to open over an area at the end surface of the cylinder block facing the crankcase between adjacent cylinders 17 and another end thereof connecting to a sliding portion inside the cylinder block.

Abstract: There is provided a vane compressor which prevents leakage of refrigerant gas by decreasing the number of airtight interfaces between component parts and prevents seizure from occurring between its rotor and its side block without surface treatment of the side block. The vane compressor has a cam ring. The rotor is rotatably received in the cam ring. A first head is secured to one end face of the cam ring. A second head is secured to another end face of the cam ring in a manner such that the second head closes an opening of the another end face of the cam ring and one end face of the rotor can be brought into contact with the second head. The side block is received in the first head in a manner such that it closes an opening of the one end face of the cam ring and another end face of the rotor can be brought into contact with the side block.

Abstract: A vane compressor has at least one of a front-side member and a rear-side member thereof formed with a suction chamber opening toward a cam ring, which has a substantially arcuate or annular shape and extends around a drive shaft. The cam ring has one end face formed with a refrigerant inlet port for supplying a low-pressure refrigerant into compression chambers formed between vanes. Alternatively, a front head is arranged on one end face of the cam ring. A shell encloses another end and an outer peripheral surface of the cam ring and holds a movable plate in a state opposed to the other end face of the cam ring such that the movable plate can be moved along a central axis of the drive shaft. An inside of the shell and the movable plate defines a high-pressure chamber therein. Each adjacent pair of the vanes, the front head, and the movable plate defines a compression chamber therein.